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Neena Gupta: Don’t like negative roles as one gets bracketed
Updated On: 29 July, 2021 10:39 AM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian
Locking horns with Manoj Bajpayee in `Dial 100`, Neena Gupta says she had initially rejected the thriller presuming her character was all-black
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Delightful as she is in family comedies, Neena Gupta has switched gears with Dial 100. The trailer of the ZEE5 crime thriller promises a battle of wits between the leads — Gupta’s grieving Seema Pallav calls the police control room manned by Manoj Bajpayee’s cop character, with the intent of settling scores with him. Gupta begins our conversation by saying that she had initially turned down the role.
“When the casting person called, I was told it’s a negative character who wants to take revenge. I told him point-blank that I didn’t want to do it. I don’t like doing negative roles because once you do it, you get bracketed. But my manager convinced me to hear the narration, explaining how the character’s arc develops. That’s when I realised it’s not an [all-black] role, but one that has many shades,” she recounts.
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